Meet the officers: Alexandra Bueno

Elected at the end of the previous academic year, your 2015-2016 Choir officers have been scattered across the earth this summer, engaging in research opportunities, culturally immersive experiences, and the lost art of sleeping enough. Today, we will get to know Alexandra Bueno, our Rehearsal Manager. A second alto, she has been exploring Taiwan for the past few months.

Introduce yourself!

Alexandra Bueno!!! Member of the Class of 2018--currently undeclared and interested in too many subjects--born and raised in Dirty Jerz ("New Jersey"). It is my great joy to be this year's Rehearsal Manager, handling the music and chairs we choirbees sing from.

What have you been up to this summer?

Well, originally I had no plan whatsoever, except maybe to pet a lot of dogs and achieve a single pull-up. Somehow that turned into me living in Taiwan for two months! The program is called the Taiwan-US Sister Alliance, which lets American students do intensive Chinese language study while also getting a great cultural education. Take comfort in knowing that a lack of certainty about the future can lead to very interesting opportunities, folks. Also, Taiwan is really cool.

When you’re not singing Ave Maria, what are you jamming out to?

There are so many possible answers here! Shamir's "On the Regular," Metric's "Black Sheep," Stromae's "Papaoutai," L'il Mama's "Lipgloss" "Kiss Me," that "Safe" song that plays at the end of Avatar: the Last Airbender episodes, "It's Tough to Be a God" from the Road to El Dorado... and so many others.

What are you looking forward to this year with the choir?

I'm really looking forward to getting to know this year's repertoire and the people singing it!

And for fun, if you were to wield a super power, what would it be?

The ability to pick up any instrument and immediately know how to jam.

Well said.